British Society for Parasitology Autumn Meeting

Event 30 Aug 2017

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A 1-day event held in London in association with the Linnean society: “The multidisciplinarity of parasitology: host-parasite evolution and control in an ever changing world” .

he 2017 BSP Autumn Symposium will be held on Thursday 28th September at the Linnean Society, Burlington House, London. The symposium is entitled “The multidisciplinarity of parasitology: host-parasite evolution and control in an ever changing world” and will be organised by Professor Russell Stothard (LSTM) and Dr Bonnie Webster (NHM).

The meeting’s aim will be to explore and broadly discuss recent progress towards understanding host-parasite relationships, with a particular emphasis on vectors and intermediate hosts of human diseases. The meeting will also be a convenient opportunity to develop a festschrift in Parasitology in honour of Prof David Rollinson (a former President of the BSP), marking over forty years of parasitological research.